skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parameters of the bet are not well defined. Both companies probably have "working" L5 technology, it just comes down to how much they're willing to gamble on the reliability and how early they're willing to put it out there. These things will obviously never be 100% reliable, so now the question is how many 9s each company is willing to wait for.

Waymo realizes that one accident is all it takes to completely destroy their operation, just like it killed Uber's self driving division. Tesla on the other hand has shown that they are prepared to be far more reckless and release things early just for headlines. To me it's meaningless who puts it out "first" because that's not a metric of how good the technology actually is. I'm interested in miles driven and disengagement statistics, which Tesla hasn't really been openly putting out like Waymo.

All I know is that right now, Waymo is the only company with an actual publicly available L4 driving car out in the streets, that is fully driverless with no one behind the steering wheel. And they have been for over a year. Meanwhile Tesla's latest private beta still requires someone behind the wheel and paying attention, and therefore is only L3.
I'm not familiar with boat technology through the ages but it seems like it would be pretty uncommon for someone to survive an accidental journey across the Pacific considering people die doing so in modern times when attempting it intentionally.
I'm not part of the target demographic, but I will say this looks compelling to me. If Peloton can do it for cycling, I do not see the reason you cannot do it for rowing.

Although a pain point kind of seems obvious, Peloton is successful because cycling by itself is "approachable". Anyone can hop on a bike and just start cycling, doesn't matter on your gender, weight, or conditioning.

While rowing, eh.. You said it yourself, people avoid it in gyms like the plague. Don't get me wrong, I love rowing for the same reasons you do, rowing is the activity I do the most during the week.

It's just that a lot of people do not like rowing, or/and are scared of it, and the biggest "problem", it is hard, way harder than anything else in the gym.

So it seems that you are naturally blocked with a certain ceiling as to how much you can grow and where. While you are establishing a moat yourself to keep competitors away, the bigger question is how is the customer going to cross the "rowing moat" to even try your product?
That was true... in 2010. At that point in time, Facebook didn't have a viable revenue model that justified the valuation. A few years later, and they did. Hindsight is always 20/20.
And here I was thinking probabilistic graphical models were finally getting the spotlight :)
The water absorption and phase separation problems are particularly bad with airplanes because airplanes operate in very cold conditions when they go up to higher altitudes. I think that these problems also would apply to pure ethanol.

The other kicker with ethanol is that its energy density is significantly lower, so it would significantly negatively impact the range/payload of every small airplane.
We didn't use it initially because the site was built before they launched that feature, but it definitely reduced some of the boilerplate that we had to write ourselves to wire up Next to WP.

We had already setup a preview page that was wired up to the Wordpress Admin's Preview button that used the endpoint provided by WP to preview content in our UI.
>Turbine engines use Jet A which is a kerosene blend fuel.

I’m always amazed how people don’t know this and think “jet fuel” is some magic stuff.

I’m missing steps, but I think it’s pretty much:

oil >> tanker fuel >> diesel >> kerosene >> jet fuel
It's a hit piece intended to sow hatred and gin up the reactionary base.
That'd be an awesome feature :)
Putting in extra effort to actively demonstrate trustworthiness.

That means when leaders are speaking, they need to monitor how their words are perceived, and resolve misunderstandings quickly.

Also, overcommunicate and share evidence, and be honest and direct.
> Not sure where else in the world people would even pay more

This doesn't match what the company is saying - they are looking at it as a way to reduce running costs, not increase ticket prices. As far as the benefits on emissions side, I suspect it has little to do with marketing "green" to ticket buyers, and more to do with mollifying groups pressuring the harbor authorities to reduce allowed # of flights.
BlackBerry stock rockets again, as company says it is 'not aware' of reason
And the Germans joined to cleanse themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race. While the French only joined because they wanted to protect their inefficient farmers from commercial competition.

The British joined to screw the French by splitting them off from the Germans that and of course their foreign policy objective for at least the last five hundred years which has being to create a disunited Europe.
for one of the possible starters, I would go for the MIT Licensed
"Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming"
by Peter Norvig.
https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

a) you get the extra benefit of playing with Lisp
b) it gets universal praise
c) as you guessed, it's free in the freedom sense

There are other resources specific to machine learning, but the above, from personal experience, actually was fun in the proper sense: expanding my mind, knowledge, and providing a well thought-out learning experience
Money managers hate him! This guy invested in the Taboola IPO and you won't believe what happened next!
"You may trust your neighbor, but that has zero bearing on society at large."

On the contrary, if you don't trust your neighbor, you have no basis for trusting anyone. It's the foundation for any other trust relationships. As for the relationships between classes, that also relies on trust in things larger than classes: trust in the legal and social framework.
I agree, Mastercard would rather have 0.3% fees on UK purchases from EU businesses than have the UK government enact such a ban. I just don't think the UK government would do that though. It'd be really hard to police too, do users even know the internal payment processor used by a store? It's probably labelled for marketing/trust but I doubt there's that much notice paid to it.
Company: Supports measures that lead to additional privacy because they realize how important it is to their users

HN: Don't be tricked, Google is evil.

Like I understand WHY there's a hate boner for Google. I just don't understand why people think it's bad for them to acknowledge the preferences of their users and make decisions accordingly.
I agree. I’ve employed the BeyondCorp philosophy behind a VPN as an extra measure of security, which is to say that all services are authenticated and encrypted inside the VPN perimeter. As shown in this article, service accounts are a major concern for attacker lateral movement which can’t be effectively protected with just 2FA.
ha ha great question! Ergatta is a great product. They also offer some versions of competitive workouts. Where Aviron differs is our machines are built with dual magnetic and air resistance, this allows our machines to go to much higher resistance levels. For example, our strength programs will guide you through bicep curls and back rows where you are “lifting” 50+ Lbs. with each pull. A water rower on the other hand does not have variable resistance settings.
Aviron also incorporates fully animated video games that include being chased by zombies and throw backs to old school favorites like pong and brick breaker. If you're interested we have a long-ish content video that goes into depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN2PVuK73Xg
I think this is almost trivially true due to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yupik_peoples
This reads like it’s straight from “The Art of Plain Talk”, 1946. [1]

I picked up that book over a decade ago, and it had a big effect on the way I write. There’s a temptation to use big words to sound more professional. Part of it is understanding your audience. But even when speaking to a crowd that can grasp the meaning of fancier language, you risk clouding your message.

Feynman understood this. A big part of his brilliance was taking hard ideas and making them simple.

My first real introduction to the idea of writing with simple, clear sentences came from Cliff Stoll. People thought the Cuckoo’s Egg was ghostwritten. In Silicon Snake Oil he shared thoughts on what made his writing so enjoyable. What I remember most is simplicity. And short sentences.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1862302.Art_of_Plain_Tal...
Monitoring the Weather at the Edge of the World
That's an interesting question, though I wonder if many such people would have survived the journey all the way across the ocean without access to fresh water or an understanding (and the necessary materials) for desalinating seawater. Some may have, but there are lots of filters working against survival, of increasing efficiency the further back in time we look.
The Endless Browser Wars
> How would anyone know they are baseless unless a proper investigation is conducted independently? What about the thousands of sworn affidavits? Surely, ALL of them can't be lying.

Proper investigations were conducted, and no serious issues found. The lawsuits were laughed out of court, even by Republican judges.

Its surely possible that all those "sworn affidavits" can be wrong in some way: AFAIK, they were either bogus, irrelevant, or from people who didn't understand what they were seeing because they hadn't bothered to familiarize themselves with the vote counting process before they became election observers.

The more pertinent question is: how could anyone still believe those lawsuits could have merit at this point? The sad answer is: disinformation works.
Certainly a good thing!

Do let me temper that slightly :

Some states didn't or didn't fully have a paper trail quite yet https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...

Also, be aware that Dominion voting systems actually acquired the old "Diebold Election Systems", who were not so secure a couple of years back. (though things may have changed by now, of course)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions
Somewhat surprised at the number of negative experiences. I've had them for ~3 weeks and can't believe I didn't buy them sooner. I did go from a wired headset to these for work and they're a game changer. Battery life is excellent. Noise cancelling is great. Yes, it seems to pair to the closest device but pairing is a couple of clicks away.
What would you need for this to be more useful for you?

There are many apps in this space. Time will time what kind of traction, support, usability, and data ownership they provide.

(I'm working on a plain-text format for structured note-taking using data structures, including graphs.)
MasterCard to raise fees to EU firms for online sales to UK shoppers
tbf I'm assuming that what the article calls "passenger flight hours" is more accurately described as "flight hours by a passenger airliner", based on the figure looking very wrong otherwise. Looking at ICAO's figures for that year there were 0.03 fatalities per 100m passenger km from airliners, so dividing through by a sensible average kph figure gives something in the region of 0.2 fatalities per passenger hour, or 30x safer than the car with sober driver. (You get to 100x quite easily by avoiding using airlines based in regions that contribute disproportionately to aviation accidents)

This is of course abstracting away from details like the aircraft travelling 10x further and walking to the airport, but the real problem is aircraft not serving the routes you want to drive. General Aviation is a lot more dangerous than commercial flights, especially when it involves clumsy pilots ;-)
This link [0] may have the information you are looking for.

The link above seems to be from an unrelated breach, the one discussed in the OP affects pretty much everything, not even your LinkedIn profile managed to escape.

[0]: https://tecnoblog.net/404838/exclusivo-vazamento-que-expos-2...
I don't really care about the nitty gritty. The fact that it's even possible on something that's supposed to be high-end, is ridiculous.
http://archive.is/AgHSl

https://briskreader.com/read?link=https://www.wsj.com/articl...

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Very well, so your interpretation now is that, contrary to what the page itself says, the definition of “value proposition” is rather to be taken the process that leads to a final “value proposition”?

So essentially, your interpretation can be reduced to the advice “It is best to think about what one's product is, and whom it targets, before one makes a proposal about it.”?

If that be your interpretation, then that certainly does not follow from the text, and is contradictory with the interpretations others have given.
> the speed of light is a bottleneck for processors

It's not the speed of light [in a vacuum], but electric signal propagation speed in copper.
this is only true because diodes are not superconductors, and even if the traveling distance is small, the joule effect is significant.
> There seems to be a correlation between countries with corrupt untrusted governments and high religious importance.

Yes, when the system is very corrupt, you need to have some alternative way to build community, cohesion, and stability.

In communist Poland, the Church has been the center of the opposition to the communist system. The system has been very corrupt, but people found solace, community and the support in the Church. When John Paul II was elected the Pope, the Polish people were reinvigorated, and rallied around him, creating Solidarity movement etc. The communist system has recognized the power of Church, and fought it viciously: for example, it murdered Jerzy Popieluszko, a priest famous for his association with Solidarity. This made Polish people rally around the Church even more.

After the fall of communism, the Church no longer needed to provide this form of support, and over time, as the civil society has improved, the Church has used the legitimacy and respect it has built during communism to push its own agenda, which in past years has been rather divisive instead of uniting. Religion is not universal social good: its value depends on both the historical circumstance, and the actual content of practice and attitudes of leadership. It can be extremely beneficial, uniting society in ways impossible otherwise, but it can also be extremely damaging, to a deadly degree.
What's it like to have laser eye surgery in South Korea
Visual Effects Artist.

I make pixels for movies and TV. It's awesome. Basically tweaking geometry and physics and colour to makes stuff look like the client wants it to look like.

I love the familiarity with the tools in my speciality. Been doing it for 20 years. Graduated from University with a bachelors in it.

There is stress available for the hungry. I've happily weaseled my way into a tiny boutique (30 people) studio with experienced and lovely owners that prioritize the crew (80% senior artists). Basically no OT, 100K$+ year, excellent health coverage (not in the USA), healthy relaxed and skilful coworkers. Dunno what could be better. And no, I have no entrepreneurial drive, happy to work for someone else.
I'm not a huge anime person, but there's one I've watched that seems a bit relevant. In _Accel World_, they wear this thing on their neck called a "Neurolink" and basically are able to connect to things like the Internet or private networks (school, home, hospital) wirelessly with it. I believe it takes over signals coming to and from the brain. But they also have a wired connection mode so they can do that or do a special direct, wired connection with someone they are close to.

The ramifications of access like that are described surprisingly well in the show.

For instance, two close friends (they're in a relationship but young enough I'd just consider them close friends) use the direct wired connection feature because they feel comfortable enough doing so. But at some point one of them decides to use that private access to plant a virus of sorts. While the purpose is irrelevant here, it does show how brain connections, especially between people, can become increasingly vulnerable.

The main plot point of the anime though, is this game application that can be installed to the Neurolink, and basically it has the ability to also wipe away or hide memories.

While what Newell is talking about is still a ways away, it's interesting to consider exactly what we may need to be worried about when the time comes.
Anyone who signs away to a corporation their right to see deserves whatever results from such an arrangement.
I'm not completely following your statement. Could you edit it a bit to make it clearer?
I'm confused; you seem to be arguing two opposite positions. You say that a civil defamation lawsuit by Dominion is suppressing dissent, and that Giuliani should be criminally prosecuted for unspecified crimes. You do realize that the latter has a much larger chilling effect, right? It's not consistent to argue against a civil case for being too chilling, and then argue for a criminal case over the same conduct.
Please tell me in great detail how I can go to sleep within 15 minuten of laying in bed. I'm very open to self work.
This study was done in a laboratory based on blood samples and does not directly equate to a percentage effectiveness. Collecting data on actual effectiveness in the wild, as it were, will require a sufficient number of vaccinated people to come into contact with the variant strains in question, and will therefore take a few months, most likely.
Ask HN: How does audience growth happen on Instagram?
I was reading an article[1] that quoted someone as saying "the podcast ecosystem doesn’t have a platform with characteristics of a community like YouTube, Instagram or TikTok"

This made me ponder.. what aspects like Youtube does IG have to help with distribution? I think they removed the "your friend liked this photo" type feed right? Beyond that all I can think of is 'tags'. (Maybe tags help significantly because people 'follow' tags?)

I do see that they encourage discovery in 'Reels' but not sure about regular photos

[1] https://www.axios.com/podcast-business-booming-few-making-money-d560010b-538f-472f-bf9d-3ea8deb97488.html
Agreed Over the past 10 years, I've done async code to coordinate lots of different concurrent tasks in JS, never once needed a the use of a mutex.
Exactly the same experience as me. I got pretty deeply involved in the digital evolution community.

Great way to spend my teenage years, and a great foundation to have while programming in any language. :)
> I'm not saying it won't work, just that it will be significantly more expensive than a conventional plane for the same performance for a long time to come.

Let's have the folks who are actually doing this because they think they can make it economically viable determine whether that's true or not eh?
I wouldn't tie my entire digital identity to whatever's cheapest if I could avoid it.

In my case I use my CC TLD. I'm in a generally stable nation that follows the rule of law and the administrator of the CC TLD has all sorts of processes in place that I have access to as far as regaining control of the domain if it's inappropriately transferred, making appeals, etc.

The extra $10 or so a year this costs is very much worth it to me as basically a form of insurance.
Here's their preprint.

It's basically using a pretrained VGG network as a latent space, which lets them synthesize images.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/787101v3
> The article talks about data of real people (not companies), but doesn't say what leaked about them.

Personal data (CPF, Birth day and so on), credit scores, social class, acquisitive power, and other informations that a company specialised in credit score have. (the leak is probably from a credit score company).
this. I'm fine with GP's use of "finding" a solution. Yes, they found one; finding solutions is a central process in software.

But I'm absolutely not fine with the wording. When confronted with the phrase "Google says it may have found a privacy-friendly substitute to cookies", I'd wager most people would think "this improves my privacy in a general way".

It doesn't. What it actually means is: Google will make it more difficult for others to track you, but Google will remain committed to tracking everything about you that it possibly can. Except silently, and without your ability to opt out using ad blockers etc.

Net result: even less control over your privacy, and Google further entrenches its monopoly to boot.

That's not an improvement in privacy.
745 dollar seems too expensive based on its parts. I'm hoping the rpi will at some point come in this form factor.
I don’t think you have read the link I sent.

We address that of course. Micropayments are supposed to be from communities to publishers, same as Netflix pays shows based on how many episodes or minutes are watched. You pay netflix and let them do the whole payout thing. They are an aggregator. Now decentralize that!
And make sure there is space for people to do this, and reward it where possible.

Companies are moving more and more towards metrics, which means the nice guy that helps everyone out but isn't as great with his metrics gets screwed, vs. the asshole who optimizes only for the metrics while screwing everyone over gets ahead. Once the nice guy has seen this happen over and over, even the nicest person breaks, gives in, and starts playing by the rules of the system, which by design incentivize working towards the measurable goals.
> Videos recorded by the company will always be cherry picked by definition, since they would only post videos that show the technology in its optimal working state.

Except FSD Beta videos are coming from actual Tesla owners. Like the one I linked above. A pretty glaring difference.

These are just one of many:

https://youtu.be/i8qVLmflQjs

https://youtu.be/sd1NV7lviAo

> A video tells you nothing about where the technology is. Unless we can see real open data about miles driven and number of disengagements, there's no way to tell if Tesla is doing well or not. So far Waymo's numbers are an order of magnitude better than any competition.

You just contradicted yourself. Tesla actually publishes their data here: [1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport and here [2]. https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/tesla-autopilot-data-3-billio...

Unless of course, you have inside knowledge on Waymo's stats/data. If that's the case. Please feel free to share.
I agree. "Ideologue" in general.

My claim is not exclusive.
Sample size of 8 is not really a huge issue for this kind of analysis.

The hypothesis is that the Moderna vaccine produces antibodies against the new variant.

8/8 people sampled produced antibodies.

Can we confidently say that 100% of people will produce antibodies? No, not with a sample size of 8.

Can we say confidently that 50% of people will produce antibodies? That the vaccine gives you a coin toss's odds? If it's just a coin toss, this result would be the same probability as 8 "heads" in a row, or 1 in 256.

So, the result is hardly FUD or meaningless. They've also submitted to journals for the world to inspect the results.
I think it is a worse anti-pattern than JSX: JSX at least uses its own file extensions and doesn't pretend to be HTML. Angular uses the HTML file extension and in my experience confuses a lot of people into thinking the "Angular Template Language" is "just HTML" when it very definitely is not.
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